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Air drills put region on 'brink of nuclear war', warns North Korea

Major US and South Korean aerial wargames in the region could trigger nuclear conflict, Pyongyang has warned.

The comments by North Korea represent rising escalation on the Korean peninsula and came as US National Security Adviser HR McMaster declared the possibility of war was “increasing” daily. Pyongyang described the drill as ‘warmongering’.

The five-day air drill called Vigilant Ace kicks off today over the Korean peninsula and involves 230 advanced warplanes from the South Korean and US air forces.

Commentary by Pyongyang's Rodong Sinmun newspaper, carried by North Korea's state media agency, criticised the exercise as a "dangerous provocation" propelling the region to "the brink of nuclear war".

A total of 12,000 US personnel from the marines, navy and air force will take part in Vigilant Ace, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The aircraft flying from eight bases include the hi-tech F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning.

Both aircraft are more than a match for anything in North Korea’s largely Soviet-era air force and are cloaked in stealth coating, making them virtually invisible to enemy radar.

“It is an open, all-out provocation against the DPRK, which may lead to a nuclear war any moment,” it said.

And the wargames showed “the enemies’ moves to start a nuclear war have reached a dangerous stage,” the media outlet declared.

These statements followed Saturday’s statement from North Korea’s foreign ministry which said Trump is “begging for a nuclear war” through what it described as a an “extremely dangerous nuclear gamble”.

Meanwhile, McMaster speaking at seminar in California on the weekend, said the chances of war on the Korean peninsula are growing daily.

“I think it’s increasing every day, which means that we are in a race, really, we are in a race to be able to solve this problem,” McMaster told an audience at the Reagan National Defesce Forum in Simi Valley.